All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 13 2020 // Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), a Summit, N.J.-headquartered operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, has hired Christopher Lamitola chief sales officer.In this capacity, Lamitola will...
Oct 12 2020 // As October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal warned residents of the state that data breaches, internet fraud and online threats are on the rise.With...
Oct 5 2020 // Worldwide Facilities LLC, a national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, has acquired Hunt Jorgensen LLC, a managing general underwriter specializing in professional liability...
Oct 2 2020 // A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in an automobile accident scheme supporting fraudulent insurance claims.Luis G. Aguirre, of Hudson County, N.J., was sentenced for his...
Oct 1 2020 // Plymouth Rock Assurance launched motorcycle insurance for riders across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.The launch of the product comes than a year after the company acquired Rider Insurance Co., which has focused on the...
Sep 30 2020 // Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in the U.S. are getting hurt at a higher rate than the industry average, according to an investigative report.The rate of injuries contradicts more rosy assertions the company has made to...
Sep 24 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Gateway Agency National of Highlands, N.J., on September 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1981, Gateway specializes in home, automobile, boating...
Sep 23 2020 // Back in March and April, I gave two webinars on COVID-19 for the Academy of Insurance.If you haven’t had a chance to take those, click here to get the Academy of Insurance COVID-19 related classes. One of the topics...
Sep 21 2020 // Carlyle, Alera GroupNew York-based investment firm The Carlyle Group led a $150 million investment for Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera Group, the property and casualty, employee benefits insurance broker that is a...
Sep 17 2020 // A discount car rental company operating out of Newark and JFK Airports has agreed to pay $80,000 in penalties, enter binding arbitration to resolve consumer complaints and change its policies and practices following New...
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 8 2020 // IAT Insurance Group has named Chris Fox to its reinsurance business unit as managing director. He is based in IAT’s Newark, N.J., office. Fox comes to IAT after 12 years with Everest Re in both domestic and...
Sep 3 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a national wholesale broker, program manager and insurance aggregator headquartered in Boston, Mass., has acquired the Equinox Management Group and its affiliates Meridian Management Group and...
Sep 2 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), has acquired Advantage Benefit Concepts Inc. of Blackwood, N.J., on April 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Advantage Benefit Concepts Inc. specializes in employee...
Aug 31 2020 // A commuter bus slammed into a divider at New York City’s main bus terminal on Saturday, injuring 16 people – one critically, the fire department said.The New Jersey Transit bus crashed around 9:30 a.m. on an...
Aug 31 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Maximum Benefit Insurance Agency Inc. of Saddle Brook, N.J., on August 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1994, Maximum Benefit Insurance Agency...
Aug 27 2020 // A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to five years in prison in the death of a pedestrian that prosecutors said occurred as the driver was texting – an accusation the defendant denied on the stand.Alexandra...
Aug 24 2020 // A former Pfizer employee who said she was fired for refusing a vaccine on religious grounds can’t proceed with a discrimination lawsuit because she waived that right, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in...
Aug 24 2020 // As a self-taught app developer, when Hayden Kopser sees a problem, he seeks to build a solution.So, when he observed during his time working at AIG that some brokerages weren’t adequately servicing high net worth...
Aug 21 2020 // National Weather Service officials on Thursday were trying to determine if a tornado touched down as a severe thunderstorm moved across a portion of New Jersey.Heavy rain and powerful winds sent residents scrambling in the...